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Thread: July Football: Five games

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    Norwich
    Burnley
    Bournemouth
    Wolves
    Leicester
    Palace
    Brighton

    Swansea
    Cardiff
    Sheff Wednesday
    Birmingham
    Forest
    Leeds
    Plucky Team that will inevitably go down

    If one of the two sheffield clubs get relegated, both are replaced by the two Glasgow clubs for a year.

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    Don't see the need for Birmingham, Villa can have their rivalry with Wolves, who you have to keep, a far more storied club than Birmingham City.

    Absolutely no need for the Welsh either.

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    I would go Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester, and then just make it up with whoever because none of them are particularly significant.

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    2 Manchesters, 2 Liverpools, North Londons, West Ham & Chelsea, Newcastle & Sunderland, Leeds, Forest, Villa, Wolves, at least one other midland club (Leicester/West Brom/Derby), not sure about both Sheffields but certainly one . . .

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    As someone who grew up in erdington. I grew up on Blues v Villa. It’s wolves v West Brom. The other mixes are like when Palace play Fulham or something.

    The welsh are worth it because it keeps them busy.

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    Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Arsenal. Play each other team 8 times.

    Super Sunday EVERY Sunday.

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    Yeah but Birmingham are shite and a perennial waste of time (moreso than, say, Everton or any of the north east mob) so sorry, no dice.

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    It seems mental that there’s not a club south of Kensington worth a shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    More like it, I really hope Watford go down.

    Sterling is so shit at penalties.

    'mon The Villa later.
    We will, unless Villa shit the bed here and then them and Bournemouth both lose on Sunday. No way we are picking up a point from Arsenal, we are absolutely rancid and deserve relegation.

    I will always have that Liverpool win with Luca though

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Any word what Pearson was up to?
    There were some shenanigans at HT in the West Ham game with various reports ranging from harsh words to punching our left back.

    Then after the game our chairman and Pearson got into a heated discussion and things were apparently said and then he's a goner.

    We love to sack a manager though so it probably didn't take a lot. And our whole team deserved punching at half time in the West Ham game.

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    this match is so unai emery it hurts

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    Can't tell whether John McGinn is good or just James McFadden pt 2.

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    This Keinan Davis lad has 2 goals in 55 league games for Villa. Had to check because he's done everything wrong since he came on

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    If Watford manage to go down then lol, though I see Granada are back baby back so they probably don't care.

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    Arsenal really are fucking useless.

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    Mellin 😎

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    Quote Originally Posted by mugbull View Post
    This Keinan Davis lad has 2 goals in 55 league games for Villa. Had to check because he's done everything wrong since he came on


    He was genuinely dreadful.

    That was probably the first game since the restart that has felt like a proper game for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    If Watford manage to go down then lol, though I see Granada are back baby back so they probably don't care.
    What's happened to future Arsenal manager, Eddie Howe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    What's happened to future Arsenal manager, Eddie Howe?
    Looks like he is a very good coach of shit players, but absolutely useless at signing/integrating better ones.

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    Deeper problems at Bournemouth than their taste for terrible Liverpool players.

    Howe remains a good coach but something's not right there.

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    Man City's goal difference vs. points total should also prompt several steward's enquiries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Deeper problems at Bournemouth than their taste for terrible Liverpool players.

    Howe remains a good coach but something's not right there.
    Those read like words straight from a pundit's playbook.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Deeper problems at Bournemouth than their taste for terrible Liverpool players.

    Howe remains a good coach but something's not right there.
    Its the signings. They have spent a small fortune since promotion and have made about three good signings in that time.

    Last summer they spent 50m on Danjuma, Kelly, Stacey and Billing. None of them are good enough. It's the same every summer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Those read like words straight from a pundit's playbook.
    From the Bournemouth fans' I know/horse's mouth. One seemed to think Howe's deal was up at the end of the season but I have no idea if that is the case as he now hopes he's given the chance to bring them back up. Bournemouth are basically a league 1 side in most respects. The bell was always going to toll for them eventually.

    They've had shit signings but it's not all bad. Aké, Brooks, Wilson, Fraser, there have been enough good ones to offset some of the Jordan Ibes and the likes. Maybe still leaning on the likes of Cook (how the fuck is he only 29?) and Simon Francis, whilst laudable, is probably not advisable in terms of long term survival.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Man City's goal difference vs. points total should also prompt several steward's enquiries.
    Not really, Guardiola's sides have always specialised in running up the score.

    Their feckless defending just means they've also/somehow managed to lose 9 games whilst smashing Watford 12-0 on aggregate.

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    What a day. Please, please see it over the line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    If Watford manage to go down then lol, though I see Granada are back baby back so they probably don't care.
    Grenada are doing so well because the Pozzos got rid of them. They aren't owned by them anymore and are flourishing.

    The 'Pozzo' model has been found out over the last 2/3 years and this has been on the cards for a while.

    The weakest league since we've been up and unbelievably probably our worst squad in that whole time too.

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    Bournemouth have the massive problem of having played Dominic Solanke as a striker for 30 games. £20m for him too.

    I thought Villa were gone after the Watford win a few games back but they've done well to claw it to here. I suspect it all depends on what kind of effort West Ham put into the final day. If both Watford and Villa lose, Bournemouth could stay up with a 1-0 win.

    Bournemouth have Everton away, who are now assured a bottom half finish so have nothing to play for. Same can be mostly said for Villa going to West Ham. Watford going to Arsenal only matters to me if the Arsenal players want to stay fresh for the cup final.

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    We need a result as far as I'm concerned. Not done yet. Being 17th with one to play is a minor miracle though. We were 7 points adrift about 10 days ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Not really, Guardiola's sides have always specialised in running up the score.

    Their feckless defending just means they've also/somehow managed to lose 9 games whilst smashing Watford 12-0 on aggregate.
    There was a stat I read the other day something like Guardiolas team when they went ahead had a +1 million goal difference and 12 wins from 12 but lost 8-9 from 12 when they've fallen behind. Seems if they're sussed then they've failed to get out of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    From the Bournemouth fans' I know/horse's mouth. One seemed to think Howe's deal was up at the end of the season but I have no idea if that is the case as he now hopes he's given the chance to bring them back up. Bournemouth are basically a league 1 side in most respects. The bell was always going to toll for them eventually.

    They've had shit signings but it's not all bad. Aké, Brooks, Wilson, Fraser, there have been enough good ones to offset some of the Jordan Ibes and the likes. Maybe still leaning on the likes of Cook (how the fuck is he only 29?) and Simon Francis, whilst laudable, is probably not advisable in terms of long term survival.
    Fraser signed while they were still in the Championship. They used to pull off lots of good signings then.

    The other three are the only good signings from 250m spent. It's just not good enough. This season they haven't been able to rely on the core of players who got the promoted and they've come unstuck.

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    Fraser signed when they were in League One. Aberdeen and Celtic (why would any young Scot pick League One over us?!) fans were apoplectic and predicting he’d never amount to anything at the time.

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    The main vibe I get from Eddie Howe is that he's a really nice man. This probably works well for moulding Simon Francis, Steve Cook, and the other ones (you know who I mean), into a better side than they should be, but when you start bringing people in for money who have egos, and they rock up in this seaside town with wind and a pier and only one branch of Nando's, is he the man to pull that lot together?

    Similar thing when he goes up to Burnley and into a dressing room full of northerners who reckon they're hard and witty and that, is he the man to make it work.

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    They haven’t bought egos. They’ve bought shit players.

    The last half decent player they bought was Nathan Ake nearly 4 seasons ago.

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    paging @SvN i think either of us might get the FIFA 22 cover job.


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    You are a certified sucker, if you think that is legit

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    Oh Fuck. That is legit and confirmed by EA

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    Is it mocked up to look like someone's bollocks insta post? You trained designers are in a world of pain if the genius marketing illuminati have managed to bring shit design into fashion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    genius marketing illuminati have managed to bring shit design into fashion.
    Opposite way round.

    99% of fashions output wouldn't get past a designers desk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel View Post
    Oh Fuck. That is legit and confirmed by EA
    Dont worry you can pay an extra 20 quid for this version.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel View Post
    You are a certified sucker, if you think that is legit
    Quote Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel View Post
    Oh Fuck. That is legit and confirmed by EA

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    I also biggrinned those posts.
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Opposite way round.

    99% of fashions output wouldn't get past a designers desk.
    I meant into mode, not literally into fashion.

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    It looks like something i would struggle to create with MS Paint in 2008

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    They remind me of that shit Kanye album's cover. Echoes of MOTDx and what not with the focus around urban/Black Lives fashion. Stick a Nick Cave soundtrack to it to fuck with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I meant into mode, not literally into fashion.
    You’re misunderstanding me. The design style comes from mode not the other way round.

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    Harry Maguire is a funny sight with the ball at his feet. Absolutely bobbins. What is that weird stance he does when moving with the ball all about. It’s like some ‘skill dribbler’ trait off fifa

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Harry Maguire is a funny sight with the ball at his feet. Absolutely bobbins. What is that weird stance he does when moving with the ball all about. It’s like some ‘skill dribbler’ trait off fifa

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    I mean it's easy to sneer at the £80m but it took Woowar three months of hard graft to haggle them down from £80m.

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